win 98 problem

[azazyel]

Alright, yesterday I added on more stick of ram and started playing a video game. The game would for some reason blink off and I would have to start over again. Then for some reason I got an error message and my computer rebooted before I was really able to read it. Then it happened, after the reboot windows went to a Registry Checker and said that there was an error and it had restored an old file to fix it. It would then only let me reboot. This keeps happening! I just get the same message over and over again. I tried to reinstall windows again and that didn't work. Windows would first go to scan disk and would say that everything is chill. It would then check the registry and would give me a message that there was an error that it was not able to fix so I could delete some files to make room or reinstall windows in a different directory. I was hoping that someone could give me the the name of the file that contains that registry info so I could delete it and see if it would just try to redo it instead of using an old one.

Really would like to get this fixed so if you have any ideas please let me know.

Thanks,

Azazyel

 

[AndyHui]

You cannot delete the Registry file as Windows cannot rebuild it from scratch (unless you want to reinstall).

It seems like you have a bad strip of RAM. Remove the RAM that you just put in and see if the problems remain.

 

[azazyel]

How would Ram affect the OS?

 

[murdock2525]

Your ram is bad or possibly...probably.... the wrong type or not fully seated.
What kind of ram ? how big /which slot are each in ? What mainboard do you have ?
Are you sure it seated fully when you put it in. You gotta push like hell sometimes and if the slot is hard to get to and your hands aren't strong it can be impossible (like on a HP Pavilion)

 

[azazyel]

No, I am sure I have the right ram. I just got it from crucial. Also, at the status screen I show that I have the extra ram